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Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae

Taxonomy
Loxonema hamiltoniae was named by Hall (1859). It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozygopleura) hamiltoniae by Horný (1955); it was recombined as Palaeozygopleura hamiltonae by Frýda (1993); it was recombined as Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae by Linsley (1968), Rollins et al. (1971), Linsley (1994), Gubanov et al. (1995), Blodgett et al. (1999) and Wagner (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Loxonema hamiltoniae Hall p. 25
1861Loxonema pexata Hall
1876Loxonema hamiltoniae Hall figs. pl. 13
1879Loxonema hamiltoniae Hall p. 45 figs. pl. 13 f. 15, 17
1889Loxonema hamiltoniae Nettelroth
1903Loxonema hamiltoniae Clarke p. 539
1909Loxonema hamiltoniae Grabau and Shimer p. 693 figs. f. 989
1913Loxonema hamiltoniae Clarke and Swartz p. 676 figs. pl. 69 f. 1-2
1913Loxonema hamiltoniae Prosser and Kindle pp. 294 - 296 figs. pl. 36 f. 16-19
1951Loxonema hamiltoniae Fisher
1955Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozygopleura) hamiltoniae Horný p. 138
1965Loxonema hamiltoniae Ellison p. 150 figs. pl. 17 f. 5-6
1968Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Linsley pp. 436 - 437
1971Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Rollins et al. pp. 165 - 166 figs. f. 20a-g
1992Loxonema hamiltoniae Blodgett and Johnson p. 127
1993Palaeozygopleura hamiltonae Frýda p. 825
1994Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Linsley
1995Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Gubanov et al. p. 439
1999Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Blodgett et al. p. 1097
2023Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Wagner p. 1917

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyLoxonematoidea(Koken 1889)
familyPalaeozygopleuridae
genusPalaeozygopleura
specieshamiltoniae()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Invalid names: Palaeozygopleura pexata Hall 1861 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Locomotion: facultatively mobilesuperf
Life habit: epifaunalsuperf
Diet: suspension feedersuperf
Vision: limitedo
Created: 2009-09-21 10:39:28
Modified: 2009-09-21 12:39:28
Source: superf = superfamily, o = order
Reference: Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: base of the Cazenovian to the top of the Frasnian or 391.90000 to 372.20000 Ma

Collections (60 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7USA (Ohio) Loxonema pexata (129948 130152 130260 130269)
Middle Devonian393.3 - 382.7USA (New York) Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae (91091 91215 91216 91226 91229 91233 91239 91242 91279)
Cazenovian391.9 - 383.7USA (New York) Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae (69460 69461 69462 69463 69464 69465)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (Michigan) Loxonema hamiltoniae (38475)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (New York) Loxonema hamiltoniae (10459 10461) Palaeozygopleura hamiltonae (89661) Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae (9352 9353 9354 9355 9377 9379 9500 9503 9504 9508 9509 9510 9511 9512 9595 9596 9597 9598 9599 9600 9601 9602 10108 10109 10119 89690 89694 89696 89707 89732 89804 96210 96211 96212 96213) Palaezygopleura hamiltoniae (9399)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2USA (Maryland) Loxonema hamiltoniae (154838)